Introducing CiNii Articles & Books

Ikki Ohmukai
Mai Sekido
National Institute of Informatics

Self Introductiony As a researchery Assoc. Prof. on Digital media and Contents ScienceDiv.
y Semantic Web and social mediay As a staff
y Product manager of scholarly information services
y CiNii and NACSIS-CATy Personal missiony Integrate…
y Web and librariesy Research and services

What is CiNii?
SearchFulltext download
Link to fulltext

Societies
Universities
Digitize
Add metadata

Infrastructure
for researchand education

Article (PDF)

Metadata

NII-ELS
4 million

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NDL+IR＋JST=15 million

Inside CiNii

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Link to Institutional Repositories
Link to J-STAGE, Journal@rchive
Renewal & API released
Author search
Support “GakuNin” authentication
Support UK-Federation
Display availability of fulltext
Cooperation with Yahoo! JAPAN
Add NDL JPI back file
Link to Informatics SQUARE
Link to JSAP, Nikkei BP
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CiNii Articles and Booksy Released on Nov 9, 2011
y CiNii Articles
y http://ci.nii.ac.jp/y Correspond to existing CiNii
y Full Text Search [New!]
y CiNii Books[New!]y http://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/
y Search for union catalog of Japanese universities
and research institutionsy Successor of NACSIS Webcat
y Webcat will be closed at March 2013

CiNii Articles Full Text Searchy Search for 4 million fulltext PDF
y Articles from NII-ELSy Extract text by OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
y Search from 3rd tab of CiNii
y Expanding search spacey Body text, caption, references, acknowledgment are now
became searchable

CiNii Booksy Search service for bibliography and holdings ofNACSIS-CATy 11 million bibliographies, 110 million holdingsy Starting to provide web API (Application ProgramInterface)

Concept of CiNii Booksy Separation from NACSIS-CAT “suite”
y Modularization, downsizingy “Cloud ready” -> respond to disastery Design UI as much like as CiNii Articles
y for “general” and “novice” users
y Leverage the power of data in NACSIS-CAT
y Rich metadata for rich searchy Name authorityy Deepen collaboration with libraries
y Direct connection to library systems
y Useful feature for ILL

Inside CiNii Books – Searchy Search by basic bibliographic information (Title, Author, IDs)y Search by Subject, Classification, Notes, Media formaty Filter by Library ID, Organization ID, Areay You can filter search for books held by particular libraries
y N-gram-based search (donʼt need to mind word separation)

Inside CiNii Books – Books/Journals details , Holdingsy Enhanced holding listy Refining by prefectures, area, ILL participation
status (ex. Japan and Global ILL availability)
y Direct link to OPACsy Links to CiNii Articles and other services (NDL, Calil,Worldcat…)

Inside CiNii Books – Name authority

y Available as each authorʼs URI
y Birth/death dates are removed
y Integrated to bibliographic searchInside CiNii Books – Metadata, APIy RDF description for each records
y Bibliography, Name authority, Libraries
y Search by OpenSearch is available
y For Books/Journals, Author, Libraries

For users not familiar with Japanesey Romaji to Kana translate

Check!

Click“Search”

Translate toKanaand Search

Roadmap of CiNii Articles and Booksy Direct export to bibliographic manager
y RefWorks, EndNote, Mendeleyy User and organization authenticationy Your OPAC or resolver will be featured if yourorganization have contract with CiNii
y Data integrationy Data-level unification between Articles and Booksy Bridging two different culture
y More links to fulltexts!
y Open access resourcesy Any other digitized materials

Conclusion
y CiNii as an evolving platformy We really welcome feedback from all ofyou!